Victim Impact Statement: Cathy Holman March 19, 2025

Posted March 19, 2025 by Prairie Wife - 8 comments

The following is a copy of the Victim Impact Statement of Cathy Holman from March 19, 2025 in the Plea Hearing of M***** S**** Misdemeanor Stalking Charges

I stand before you today with a list of things that I would have previously found unbelievable that have become our harsh reality over the last year and a half.

A 40-year-old woman, whom I would have referred to as a close acquaintance, maybe even a friend, has systematically stalked, harassed, and bullied my child.

On my birthday, M***** S**** texted me from her personal phone saying, “Happy Birthday!! Hope you have the best day!!”

Yet a few days before, she sent texts to my daughter from a fake social media account created to mimic my daughter’s classmate.  In the message, she belittled my daughter for liking a boy in her class, referring to him as “P ugly,” made fun of his personal appearance and sent her a picture of the HS wrestling team where Marcie Smith had circled kids and labeled them as “cute kids” and “ugly kids”

M***** S**** texted me from her personal phone on May 12 and said I quote, “Happy Mother’s Day to you beautiful friend…so thankful god placed you all in our lives and we get to raise our babies together.”

Almost exactly a month earlier, the night of Prom, she sent an email to me from an account specifically created to look like it was from a current teacher at our High School that called my daughter a “snatch” and demanded I “quit putting on a fake image”

On July 11, I received a text message from M***** S****’s personal phone showing a screenshot of a text that was clearly made to look like it came from my daughter, though the phone number it came from was an anonymous number. M***** S**** texted under the screenshot, “I am seriously about to blow my shit.” I responded via text. “Report it to the cops.” Via text, M***** S**** went on to accuse Gillian of sending the text to her, her daughter, and another woman and child in our community.

I called M***** S**** to make it clear that my daughter was not involved. In the course of the phone conversation, Marcie accused my daughter of bullying her daughter, her niece, and another child at Glenrock High School. Three times, I offered to have all of us meet at the school with the administration to solve the problem once and for all. M***** S**** became so upset that she said twice that the stress from all the texts we were sending “had her thinking about killing herself.” After she hung up on me, I immediately called the police and asked them to go to her home and check and make sure she was okay.

To now know that M***** S**** sent these texts to her own daughter, her friend, and her daughter’s best friend to try and make my daughter and I look like villains in the twisted story she had created is beyond upsetting. The fact that M***** S**** threatened to kill herself because of my supposed actions…while knowing full well that she was the one who had written all of the texts is unbelievable.

I have dozens of other examples of how M***** S**** stalked, bullied, harassed, and tried to humiliate my daughter and our family, but I think you have heard enough today.

Every one of these messages resulted in hard conversations with our daughter, tears, anger, and, at times, even a rift in our relationship with our daughter when she didn’t understand why we wouldn’t let her participate in activities that should have been a part of a normal 15 years old’s life.

Our 3 younger children saw the tears and were impacted by the stress we were all under, even though we kept the nature of these conversations quiet. Our oldest son was trying to protect his little sister the best that he could, but like Gillian’s dad and I…he knew all he could do was listen to her as she cried and be a comforting presence encouraging her to keep her head up and not let this person win.

I watched my joyful, vibrant, and, at times, admittedly sassy daughter turn into a teen who felt isolated, helpless, and scared. A girl who even now no longer feels comfortable going to watch her best friend play sports unless I attend the games with her.

It is unbelievable to me that M***** S**** spent the last year and a half, and so many hours of her life, systematically finding ways to hurt my daughter and ruin my family’s name and reputation in our community…but we now know thanks to the amazing work of the Glenrock Police Department and M***** S****’s confession to the Investigating Officer that the unbelievable is indeed the truth.

At first, we thought the protection order would offer relief and comfort for us and our daughter. But sadly, we were mistaken. M***** S**** has taken every opportunity to use the “gray areas” in the protection order to continue making our family uncomfortable. Just two weeks ago, she and her lawyer spent a week trying to amend the protection order so she could attend state wrestling, where my daughter was competing. Thankfully, the changes were denied. Yet all week, M***** and her family were on social media talking about how she would be there. On the final day of competition, M*****’s family brought a giant poster with M*****’s face on it with the words “I’m here” and sat three rows above the mat where my daughter was competing, waving it around for everyone to see.

What was made to look like a supportive sign for her niece was yet one more example of M***** harassing and bullying my child…and this time, her family willingly helped her continue her cruelty.

While I feel that Wyoming’s current stalking laws and lack of laws addressing cyberbullying do not allow for true justice for our family, I appreciate the opportunity you’ve given us today to finally, at last, without fear of retribution, speak the truth about what M***** S**** did to us. I look forward to a future where we are no longer helpless against attacks on our name and character. Where we can look forward to big moments in Gillian’s life with joy and excitement instead of fear and anxiety.

I dream of the day when I can go back to worrying about if our teenager is turning in her homework, or if she has been sneaking her phone to her room past 10:00 pm rather than wondering if the next thing M***** S**** does is going to be what pushes her over the edge…the thing that takes the last bit of strength that she has left and she does the unbelievable to take away the pain.

Victim Impact Statement of Cathy Holman written for the March 19, 2025 Plea Hearing of M***** S**** Misdemeanor Stalking Charges

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